The cult of Woking lives on

Wednesday 2 April 2014 13:28 BST

Like character, like director. At a BFI screening of his latest film — an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Double as a black comedy — Submarine director Richard Ayoade answered questions with a wit that could have come from one of his on-screen characters.

“Have the citizens of Woking — where the movie was filmed — seen the finished picture?” asked the interviewer.

“The citizens of Woking — as they insist on calling themselves,” deadpanned Ayoade, “are pretty much watching it daily. It’s not weird enough yet to call it a religion but there’s a groundswell.”